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F. Edward Dudek, PhD

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Academic Information

Departments: Neurosurgery - Professor

Academic Office Information

801-581-6354

Physiology Department420 Chipeta WaySalt Lake City, UT 84108

Academic Bio

.Dr. Dudek received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine in June, 1969, as well as his Ph.D. degree in 1973. Dr. Dudek went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Ophthalmology Research from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York from Feb 1973 to Feb 1974. From April 1974to September 1974 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, California. He was then a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Marine Biomedical Institute and Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX from October 1974 to July 1975. In August of 1975 Dr. Dudek became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA until June 1980. At that time, Dr. Dudek was promoted to Associate Professor, also at Tulane University School of Medicine. In 1984 Dr. Dudek was made Professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine, where he resided until 1987. July 1987 – June 1992 Dr. Dudek was Professor and Associate Director of the Mental Retardation Research Center, at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. Dr. Dudek was then a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, where he also served as Chair for the department of Anatomy and Neurobiology from July 1992 to June 2000 and Associate Director of the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Program from July 2002-December 2005. In March 2005 Dr. Dudek was made Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Education History

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School

Degree

Postdoctoral Training

Marine Biomedical Institute and Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Texas Medical BranchPhysiology and Biophysics

Postdoctoral Training

Postdoctoral Training

University of California, Dept. of PsychobiologyNeurophysiology

Postdoctoral Training

Postdoctoral Training

Columbia University, Dept. of Ophthalmology Research, College of Physicians and SurgeonsSensory Physiology

Postdoctoral Training

Doctoral Training

University of California, Dept. of Developmental and Cell BiologyNeurophysiology